Verse 16

The wage of the righteous `is' for life, The increase of the wicked for sin.

Referenced Verses

  • Prov 11:18-19 : 18 The wicked is getting a lying wage, And whoso is sowing righteousness -- a true reward. 19 Rightly `is' righteousness for life, And whoso is pursuing evil -- for his own death.
  • John 6:27 : 27 work not for the food that is perishing, but for the food that is remaining to life age-during, which the Son of Man will give to you, for him did the Father seal -- `even' God.'
  • Rom 6:23 : 23 for the wages of the sin `is' death, and the gift of God `is' life age-during in Christ Jesus our Lord.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 so that, my brethren beloved, become ye stedfast, unmovable, abounding in the work of the Lord at all times, knowing that your labour is not vain in the Lord.
  • Gal 6:7-9 : 7 Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap, 8 because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during; 9 and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap -- not desponding;
  • 2 Tim 2:17-18 : 17 and their word as a gangrene will have pasture, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus, 18 who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;
  • 2 Tim 3:13 : 13 and evil men and impostors shall advance to the worse, leading astray and being led astray.
  • Heb 6:10 : 10 for God is not unrighteous to forget your work, and the labour of the love, that ye shewed to His name, having ministered to the saints and ministering;
  • Prov 11:30 : 30 The fruit of the righteous `is' a tree of life, And whoso is taking souls `is' wise.
  • Isa 3:10-11 : 10 Say ye to the righteous, that `it is' good, Because the fruit of their doings they eat. 11 Wo to the wicked -- evil, Because the deed of his hand is done to him.
  • Matt 7:17-18 : 17 so every good tree doth yield good fruits, but the bad tree doth yield evil fruits. 18 A good tree is not able to yield evil fruits, nor a bad tree to yield good fruits.
  • Matt 12:33-34 : 33 `Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree bad, and its fruit bad, for from the fruit is the tree known. 34 `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings: